If firms anticipate that they are at risk of being held up, firms are more likely to adopt contracts or organizational forms such as

a. investments in reputation
b. mergers
c. exchange of "hostages"
d. All the above

d

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In the above figure, the economy is at point a on the initial supply of loanable funds curve SLF0. What happens if the real interest rate rises?

A) Nothing; the economy would remain at point a. B) There would be a movement to a point such as b on supply of loanable funds curve SLF0. C) The supply of loanable funds curve would shift rightward to a curve such as SLF2. D) The supply of loanable funds curve would shift leftward to a curve such as SLF1.

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The above figure shows the marginal private benefit and marginal social cost of a college education. If society's external benefits from college graduates is $10,000 each, then without government intervention

A) no students will go to college. B) less than 10 million students will go to college. C) 10 million students will go to college. D) more than 10 million students will go to college.

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